How Lum Chang Creations is saving Singapore’s heritage, and turning it into a scalable business

When (MD) of Lum Chang Creations (LCC) Lim Thiam Hooi speaks about old buildings, he doesn't talk about square footage or redevelopment potential. Instead, he describes intricate details carved into facades and interiors, hidden under layers of flaking paint on century-old walls. He talks about flowers that have lost their veins to decades of overpainting, and how skilled artisans painstakingly restore them with scalpels. For Mr Lim, buildings are stories. To him, the act of restoration is a kind of cultural stewardship: You look at an old building, and after our work, it’s transformed – we’ve breathed new life into it. This ethos lies at the heart of LCC’s proposition as a newly listed firm on the Singapore Exchange’s Catalist board. Spun off from Lum Chang Holdings, LCC has established its own identity as a specialist in urban revitalisation—a niche that includes conservation, restoration, and adaptive reuse of heritage and ageing…